Sustainable Development Goals:The Usefulness of Conceptual Framework of Growth and Economic Development as an Implementing Tool for Policy Planners and Development Managers

The last goal of strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development has pivotal importance in sustainable development strategy. The new proposed set of comprehensive and universal sustainable development goals (SDGs) are to implemented at global level by UNO in current year 2016 with seventeen development goals which are ambitious and an extension of eight millennium development goals and also more focused on global economic development.

Keeping in view of above we must work together with international community to generate the soft infrastructures of human resources needed to realize the transformative vision of the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs). The concept of economic development requires greater emphasis of policy makers according to the need of this vast subject and in the views of some eminent economists in the historical context for a thorough understanding of this dynamic subject that is required at large in discussion and practice. The above understandings will be clear road map for policy makers from nook to corner in the world as ‘sustainable development goals’.

The paper fulfills the need of comprehensive but precise review of literature of economic development from classical period to date for implementers. It is evaluated in most precise manners for easy understandings of common terms i.e. economic growth, development, human development, indicators and objectives of economic development. Paper is very useful for politicians/ statesman, public sector managers, private sector entrepreneurs, NGOs/CBOs, students of development studies and general readers.